Guests 9103 Guests
April 2006
- Fiona Apple Singer-Songwriter
- Christiane Amanpour Journalist, ABC News
- Peter Beinart Editor, The Atlantic; Contributor, CNN
- Joe Cirincione President, The Ploughshares Fund
- Jay Carney White House Press Secretary
- Daljit Dhaliwal Guest Host
- Daniel C. Dennett Philosopher; Author
- Marian Wright Edelman President and Founder, Children's Defense Fund
- Sasha Frere-Jones Music Critic
- Vincent Falcone Conductor; Author
- Les Gelb President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
- Richard Gardner Former U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Former U.S. Ambassador to Spain
- Frank Gehry Architect
- Jeremy Greenstock Director, Ditchley Foundation; Former U.K. Envoy to Iraq
- David Graeber Associate Professor of Anthropology, Yale University
- Jane Harman President, Woodrow Wilson Center
- Richard Holbrooke United States Special Envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Tony Judt Historian; Author
- Tamar Jacoby Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute
- Yue-Sai Kan Television Host
- Joe Klein Political Columnist, Time
- Mark Krikorian Executive Director, Center for Immigration Studies
- Jon Meacham Historian; Author
- Gregory Maniatis Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute
- Bill Moyers Journalist; Host, "Bill Moyers Journal"; Author
- Nicolai Ouroussoff Guest Host
- George Packer Journalist, The New Yorker
- Bill Richardson
- Jesse Sheidlower Editor at Large, Oxford English Dictionary
- Gary Sick Senior Research Scholar, Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, Columbia University
- William Safire Guest Host
- David Sanger National Security Correspondent, The New York Times
- Roberto Suro Director, Pew Hispanic Research Center
- Judy Woodruff Journalist, PBS Newshour
- Brian Williams Guest Host
- Anthony Zinni General (Ret.), United States Marine Corps; Author
- Javad Zarif Minister of Foreign Affairs, Iran
March 2006
- Ziad Asali President, American Task Force on Palestine
- Mike Allen Co-Founder, Axios
- Fouad Ajami Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Director of Middle East Studies, Johns Hopkins University
- Kofi Annan Former United Nations Secretary General; Author
- Shabana Azmi Actor; Activist
- Anil Agarwal Chairman, Vedanta Resources
- William F. Buckley, Jr. Journalist; Author
- Christopher Buckley Author
- Zbigniew Brzezinski Professor, Johns Hopkins University; Former National Security Advisor
- Richard Bernstein Author
- David Brooks Former Columnist, The New York Times
- Nicholas Burns Professor, Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government
- Conrad Crane Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
- George Clooney Actor
- Ana Marie Cox Blogger; Author
- Zoe Caldwell Actor
- Santiago Calatrava Architect
- Ken Duberstein Former White House Chief of Staff; C.E.O., The Duberstein Group
- Vishakha Desai President, Asia Society
- Charles Duelfer Former Head, Iraq Survey Group
- Michael Eisner Former C.E.O., Walt Disney Company
- Aaron Eckhart Actor
- John Edwards Former Senator, (D) North Carolina; Presidential Candidate
- John Feinstein Sportswriter, The Washington Post
- James Fallows National Correspondent, The Atlantic
- Harvey Fineberg President, Institute of Medicine at the National Academies
- Francis Fukuyama Author; Fellow, Stanford University
- Russ Feingold Senator, (D) Wisconsin
- Laurie Garrett Senior Fellow for Global Health, Council on Foreign Relations
- Julie Gerberding Director, Center for Disease Control
- Les Gelb President Emeritus, Council on Foreign Relations
- Jeffrey Gettleman Baghdad Correspondent, The New York Times
- Michael Gordon Chief Military Correspondent, The New York Times
- Edward Hayes Lawyer
- Terrence Howard Actor
- Paul Haggis Screenwriter
- Jeffrey Immelt Chairman & C.E.O., General Electric
- Walid Jumblatt Member of Parliament, Lebanon
- Eric Kandel Profesor, Columbia University; Howard Hughes Medical Investigator
- Jack Kemp Co-Chair, Council on Foreign Relation, Independent Task Force on U.S.-Russia Relations
- Michael Leavitt Secretary of Health and Human Services
- Sidney Lumet Director
- Mitchell Lazar Director, The Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism, The University of Pennsylvania
- Heath Ledger Actor
- Ang Lee Director
- David Makovsky Senior Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- Jessica Mathews Director, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Kanan Makiya Professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Brandeis University
- Bennett Miller Director
- John Nagl Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
- David Nabarro Senior System Coordinator for Avian and Human Influenza, United Nations
- Paul Nurse President, U.K. Centre for Research and Innovation; Former President, Rockefeller University; Nobel Prize Laureate
- Nandan Nilekani Co-Chairman, Infosys Technologies
- Abigail Pogrebin Author
- Billy Packer Sports Announcer, CBS Sports
- Peter Palese Chair of the Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
- George Packer Journalist, The New Yorker
- Natalie Portman Actor
- Thomas Perkins Venture Capitalist; Author
- Gordon Parks Photographer; Musician; Writer; Director
- Azim Premji Chairman, Wipro
- Dennis Ross Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- David Rockefeller Head, Chase Manhattan; Philanthropist
- Jason Robards Actor
- Jason Reitman Director; Producer
- Ed Rollins Republican Strategist
- Lewis Sorley Retired Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army
- Roger Simon Journalist, Politico
- David Sacks Film Producer
- Marc Santora Journalist, The New York Times
- Martin Silink President-Elect, International Diabetes Federation; Professor of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of Sydney
- Bill Sammon Journalist, The Washington Examiner
- Michael Steinhardt Founder, Steinhardt Partners
- Gene Sperling Senior Economic Advisor, Clinton Campaign; Former National Economic Advisor, Clinton
- David Strathairn Actor
- Kiran Mazumdar Shaw Chairman, Biocon
- Bernard Trainor Retired U.S. Marine Corps General; Author
- Robert Towne Screenwriter
- Ratan Tata Chairman, Tata Group
- Harold Varmus Former Director, NIH; Former Director, National Cancer Institute
- Ken Walsh Journalist, U.S. News & World Report
- Bashar al-Assad President of Syria
February 2006
- Torie Clarke Author; Former Pentagon Spokeswoman; Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs
- Gurcharan Das Columnist, Times of India
- Shekhar Gupta Editor in Chief, The Indian Express
- Terrence Howard Actor
- Paul Haggis Screenwriter
- Jo Johnson South Asia Bureau Chief, Financial Times
- Tony Judt Historian; Author
- Catherine Keener Actor
- M. K. Narayanan National Security Advisor, India
- Robin Wright Penn Actor
- Richard Reeves Author; Lecturer, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, USC
- Siddharth Varadarajan Deputy Editor, The Hindu
- Rachel Weisz Actor